The 9th Shared Wisdom Meeting to set light to the future of Turkish textile sector organized by Istanbul Textile and Raw Materials Exporter Association (ITHIB) was carried out with Turkish Home Textile Industrialists and Businessmen Association (TETSIAD). At the meeting which was realized with the leading of the President of ITHIB, İsmail Gülle and the President of TETSIAD, Yaşar Küçükçalık, the Members of the Board of the Association and the sector agents came together.
We have to underatand the importance of cottonThe subjects such as the share of the home textile in the export and the developing of textile sector, the things to be carried out for developing the sector and which marketplaces need to be focused on to develop Turkish textile sector were discussed, The President of TETSIAD, Yaşar Küçükçalık who made the opening speech mentioned the location of the Turkish home textile sector said “Cotton wool sector is a sector which carries Turkey. The most important reason which made Turkey rank among 3rd is cotton. The big part of 3,5 billion dollars export is supplied with towel and bed lining. But we have observed a decline in sector export recently. The important reasons among these are the unbalance at export policy, not being supporting of home production and the insufficient fair places which we are also planning to carry out our 500 billion dollars target in 2023. Export has to be balanced and has to work up the investment within it”.
“We have to focus on Iran”The President of ITHIB, İsmail Gülle shared the general numeric data related to the sector and said “Turkey is the 6th exporter of the world textile and 4th of the biggest home textile exporter in the world. Our home textile export value is 2.1 billion dollars. In spite of the confusion of our speech recently, our sector export grew at 6% rate. But, I want to share some changes with you from 2013 to 2014 at country base. Due to the conflict in Russia, 25% decrease is seen in our export. It happened 5% increase in Italia, 1% increase in Germany, 14% increase in United Kingdom and 42% increase in Iran. It is obviously seen here that we have to focus on Iran Market. This 80 million population has big needs. It is important to carry out to invest in this country in which the political atmosphere is good as well. One another point in which I want to draw attention is the import prohibitions. As our import in 2012 decreased as 27% rate against this situation which is important to support home production, it increased with 5.2 billion dollars in 2014 again. This rate has to decrease instead of increase”.
